I have a particular interest in Attachment-Informed EMDR and trained originally with Sandie Richman and Susan Darker-Smith and then came under an EMDR Focus umbrella in 2023.

I currently work in private practice in Ely, Cambridgeshire, seeing clients and supervisees online and in person.

I hold a Masters in Counselling from the University of Manchester plus Diplomas in Forensic Psychodynamic therapy where I trained at the Portman and Tavistock Institute in London. I also have a Certificate in Supervision of Counselling and Psychology from New Dawn New Day based at Leicester Women’s Centre .

If that wasn’t enough, I completed my Professional Doctorate in 2016 from the University of Chester.

My practice began in 2001 years has spanned many areas of work, including forensic psychotherapy, general psychotherapy in the NHS and in private practice working with family members of all ages.

I have a particular interest in working with complex and attachment-related trauma, which in my clinical experience would often seem to lay at the ‘root’ of most issues that we later endure and find challenging to move forward from.

I have witnessed, personally and professionally, how hidden trauma, adverse life experiences and the resultant suffering may also provide fertile ground from which we seek and grow; a catalyst for positive personal and spiritual growth in which our humanity, vitality, joy, freedom and inner wisdom, together with experiencing greater alignment with our true sense of self and deeper connection with others.

I seek to offer individuals a relational way of working so they know who they are beyond the ‘story’. I work with children, adolescents and adults. I’m particularly keen to explore the boundaries of what EMDR is able to treat, integrating it with other models and also with areas less directly associated with trauma such as relationships, especially grief and loss and depression and anxiety.

I am an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and am an EMDR UK Accredited Practitioner.